Charset

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Description:

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Static methods:

• public static unowned string? best (string inbuf, size_t inlen)
  Computes the best charset to use to encode this text buffer.
• public static unowned string canon_name (string charset)
  Attempts to find a canonical charset name for charset.
• public static unowned string iconv_name (string charset)
  Attempts to find an iconv-friendly charset name for charset.
• public static unowned string iso_to_windows (string isocharset)
  Maps the ISO-8859-# charset to the equivalent Windows-CP125# charset.
• public static unowned string? language (string charset)
  Attempts to find a specific language code that is specific to charset .
• public static unowned string locale_name ()
  Gets the user's locale charset (or iso-8859-1 by default).
• public static void map_init ()
  Initializes character set maps.
• public static void map_shutdown ()
  Frees internal lookup tables created in map_init.
• public static unowned string name (string charset)
  Attempts to find an iconv-friendly charset name for charset.

Methods:

• public unowned string? best_name ()
  Gets the best charset name based on the charset mask this.
• public bool can_encode (string charset, string text, size_t len)
  Check to see if the UTF-8 text will fit safely within charset.
• public void init ()
  Initializes a charset mask structure.
• public void step (string inbuf, size_t inlen)
  Steps through the input buffer 1 unicode character (glyph) at a time (ie, not necessarily 1 byte at a time).

Fields:

• public uint mask
• public uint level